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The former SNP Rutherglen and Hamilton West representative sat through an entire mass and even gave a reading. Around 45 people were in attendance at the time. She went to a bar in Prestwick, South Ayrshire after attending the mass.

Brutal torture and assault of women accused of witchcraft go unpunished while policies to tackle issue falter.

A Nicaraguan Catholic priest from a northern parish was detained after celebrating Mass, the Church said, amid rising tensions between the church and the government of President Daniel Ortega.

On Aug. 2, staid, conservative Kansas gave the United States one of the biggest jolts in an election season in which Democratic disaster and Republican ascension had been such an accepted fact that left-wing media’s denial of inevitability sounded more like prayer. President Joe Biden’s approval rating was lower than…

Nicaragua’s government recently shuttered seven radio stations belonging to the Catholic Church

Nicaragua’s police are prohibiting a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest sign of tensions between the government and the Roman Catholic Church

Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reflects on the papal apology tour in Canada – and what ‘sorry’ means to survivors.

Lawyers for the Catholic Church have claimed an ex-choirboy's father cannot sue as he was not the primary victim of Cardinal George Pell's alleged sexual abuse.

The Catholic Church is using a controversial legal tactic in a bid to be excused from a civil damages claim lodged in the Victorian Supreme Court involving Cardinal George Pell.

“Isn’t church supposed to be open to all?,” the singer wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post.

Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada's residential school system "like slaps" and that the Catholic Church has to face up to its responsibility for institutions that abused children and tried to erase indigenous cultures.